Quotes about Holiness

Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as the LORD your God has commanded you.

And you must not bring any detestable thing into your house, or you, like it, will be set apart for destruction. You are to utterly detest and abhor it, because it is set apart for destruction.

Be careful not to offer your burnt offerings in just any place you see;

for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.

You must not eat any detestable thing.

You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to the foreigner residing within your gates, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people belonging to the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.

But if an animal has a defect, is lame or blind, or has any serious flaw, you must not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.

When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not imitate the detestable ways of the nations there.

You must be blameless before the LORD your God.

No man with crushed or severed genitals may enter the assembly of the LORD.

If any man among you becomes unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he must leave the camp and stay outside.

For the LORD your God walks throughout your camp to protect you and deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy, lest He see anything unclean among you and turn away from you.